‘Petty, small-minded and vindictive’: Inside Project 2025’s plan for the Department of Justice

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Published 2024-07-28
Elie Mystal, Justice correspondent for The Nation, joins Ali Velshi to break down how Project 2025 could radically alter the U.S. Justice Department while playing into Trump’s desire for revenge against a branch which he lacked the power to control during his first term as president. “Trump has active PTSD over what the Department of Justice did to him while he was president,” Mystal says. “So as president again… his entire plan is to power the DOJ and make them jump to his own rules."

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All Comments (21)
  • This election could go down in history with the intense Harris and Trump controversy. Do you think this could be the breakthrough for the first female president in the USA? How do you think she compares to Trump? It's shaping up to be quite the showdown!
  • Instead of inviting Senatorette Lindsey Graham or Tom Cotton on for the umpteenth time to lie and dodge questions, the Sunday shows should ALL be doing what Ali is doing: talking in depth about Project 2025 AND highlighting Trump's "In four years you won't have to vote" comment. We learn nothing from the same, toothless interviews of the same, spineless Trump toadies.
  • @letzsnuggzz
    Steven Miller as AG is scary AF! The man is a certified brownshirt.
  • Trump must be held accountable for his crimes – vote blue! 🇺🇸💙
  • @user-fm7bm1gu2f
    Do a chapter of project 2025 EVERYDAY!!! People will watch it and need to see how horrifying it is!
  • @Hershizzle
    Talk about this every day!! Chapter by chapter!! Lets go!!!!
  • Trump sums up Project 2025 perfectly & Project 2025 sums up Trump perfectly. The Republicans offer both to the American voters. Incredibly 10s of millions of Americans what is on offer by Trump & Project 2025. One hopes enough Americans rally against what they have put on offer. For the good of America.
  • @amcm15
    HARRIS 2024 🗳️🇺🇸💙
  • @Peter-jv3vg
    I don’t know where trumps election team get the nerve to let him off his chain.He is now gone absolutely insane.
  • @JAGRAFX
    We just moved to Frederick, Colorado and our nice new neighbors here in Weld County [a former Red County] are dismayed with the overt Christian Nationalism and overt patriarchal concepts being pushed in the 940-page Heritage Foundation's PROJECT 2025. 🔥
  • Vote true for freedom. Vote blue💙and you can fact check this guy. Do it and see blue💙💙💙
  • @argentin3
    "I don't care about you, I just want your vote" Dishonest Don June 9th 2024
  • “Petty, small-minded, and vindictive” … and frickin’ weird, too.
  • @joyceboin6093
    Please keep bringing this document to the people! You are excellent at explaining this material .. keep doing it !,, thank you for your hard work
  • @Elena-rt9yu
    Americans, do not elect a criminal, be smart.
  • As far as this particular part of project 2025. In a nutshell it seeks to make all federal and state level elected officials in the justice system completely irrelevant and puts full and total control of every single state in the president's hands.
  • @barnacleboy2197
    Our vote matters now more than anything before! Let’s keep sight on democracy. 💙 Keep the weirdos out of office!
  • I've heard that Project 2025 is much easier to understand in its original German.